The open neo-Nazi has praised Kiev’s extremist Azov regiment at a march close to Disney World in Florida
The chief of a flamboyant white supremacist group has informed US media that he helps present US President Joe Biden over his predecessor Donald Trump as a result of “he sends rockets to Ukraine.” Police say the group is “in search of consideration.”
Former US Marine Christopher Pohlhaus, who refers to himself on-line as ‘The Hammer’, led a march of a number of dozen ‘Blood Tribe’ members within the Orlando space on Saturday. Wearing crimson and black and waving swastika banners, Pohlhaus’ crew carried out Nazi salutes at passing site visitors and shouted “Heil Hitler.”
The gathering drew the eye of native media, with unbiased reporter Brendan Gutenschwager stopping to interview Pohlhaus. Regardless of President Joe Biden describing white supremacy as “probably the most deadly terrorist risk within the homeland,” Pohlhaus expressed assist for the Democrat president.
“My vote is ineffective,” he started, earlier than declaring “I feel Biden’s higher than Trump as a result of he sends rockets to Ukraine. Heil Ukraine! Heil Azov!”
‘Blood Tribe’ chief Christopher Pohlhaus, a former Marine who additionally goes by ‘Hammer’, spoke on an overpass alongside members of each ‘Blood Tribe’ and ‘Goyim Protection League’ in the present day in Florida pic.twitter.com/B4do0BoiKS
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) September 2, 2023
By “Heil Azov,” Pohlhaus was referring to Ukraine’s Azov regiment, a neo-Nazi militia formally integrated into the Ukrainian Nationwide Guard in 2014, and destroyed by Russian forces within the siege of Mariupol final yr. The regiment fights in uniforms adorned with Nazi symbols – together with the wolfsangel (wolf’s hook) rune and the Sonnenrad’, or ‘Black Solar’ – and two of its spokesmen stated in 2015 that as much as half of the regiment’s members had been Nazis.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has referred to as the Azov regiment “heroes.”
Behind Pohlhaus within the video stood Kent ‘Boneface’ McClellan, a Floridian Nazi who fought with the Azov regiment and different extremist militias in Ukraine. In an interview final yr, McClellan admitted to collaborating in atrocities within the Donbass area, and claimed that the CIA helped him be part of the regiment.
Many on-line right-wing commentators have proclaimed Pohlhaus a “fed,” and Blood Tribe a government-run entrapment operation. The group has been energetic since 2021 and has proven up at extra mainstream right-wing protests all through this yr, for instance performing Nazi salutes at a ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ occasion in Ohio in March. Conservatives picketing the LGBTQ occasion say that the neo-Nazis confirmed as much as tarnish their picture.
Based on a report by the Maine Wire, Pohlhaus co-owns a property within the state with Fred Ramey, a former Democratic Social gathering activist who campaigned for present Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg when he ran for president in 2020. Pohlhaus had federal drug fees towards him dismissed with no clarification in 2012, whereas Ramey’s felony file was redacted within the early 2000s.
Native regulation enforcement view Blood Tribe as attention-seeking troublemakers. “We all know these teams reveal in excessive profile areas to be able to agitate and incite folks with antisemitic symbols and slurs,” the Orange County Sheriff’s Workplace stated in a press release. “They’re in search of consideration, and particularly media consideration.”
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